If the target creature becomes an illegal target, Essence Extraction doesn't resolve and you don't gain life.
Essence Extraction
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PRM — the lineup includes Full Art alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #62211 of *Magic Online Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the May 2017 Magic Online release.
Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted).
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #21,191 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek. Rarix catalogs 429 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Tomasz Jedruszek
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